South Side crash critically injures one

By Eva Ruth Moravec :
February 3, 2013

A woman remains hospitalized after she was critically injured in a crash on the South Side.

Around midnight Sunday, a motorist rear-ended a truck that was broken down on Loop 410 over the San Antonio River, San Antonio police said. Maricela Claudio, 28, was sitting in the passenger seat without wearing a safety belt and was ejected from the vehicle, said police. She was flown to University Hospital, where she remains in critical but stable condition, the hospital said.

According to police, the driver of the truck said his drive shaft broke, and he stopped as closely to the edge of the road as he could.